Learn about the maritime strike in the Torres Strait Islands in 1936 where workers in the pearl fishing industry took a stand against racism.
On 21 April in 1856, building workers in Melbourne took strike action and won the eight-hour day as a general industry standard.
Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to Australia on their place of exile, and the patterns of collective resistance by the mass of unfree convict women and women to the exploitation of their forced labour.
A short history of how unions in Australia campaigned over the decades for the right to annual leave.
An inspiring example of collective action by Aboriginal workers and their allies against powerful corporate interests who wanted to trample their rights for profit.
Remembering Edna Ryan, a woman who left an extraordinary legacy of activism against sexism and for gender equity.
On 1 May 1946, Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Pilbara walked off the stations. The strike that began on that day lasted for three years. The Pilbara Strike was a heroic and inspiring collective action by Aboriginal workers. It is a moment of history every unionist should know about. This is the story of three years of determined struggle by Aboriginal workers against racism and for respect and self-determination.
A Sheep Shearer’s strike began in Queensland in 1891 when employers sought to introduce union-busting contracts and a reduction in pay rates.
Brief history of the union campaign in Australia for equal pay for women which led to the “equal pay for work of equal value” decision in 1972.
Learn about the Wave Hill walk off and strike in 1966 by the Gurindji people who fought for award wages, land rights and self-determination.
On 8 December 1981, unionists in the metal industry voted to end a long industrial campaign, and won the 38-hour week.
The first of May has long been a day of celebration for the international workers’ movement. Why do we celebrate May Day?
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